Writer Wednesday: Andrea Downing
Today I welcome Andrea Downing, whose Western romance, 'Loveland', is a finalist for Best American Historical in the RONE awards, to be announced in August. Her second book, 'Lawless Love' is free on Amazon from 9th to 13th July. Congratulations, Andrea, on both your books. You must be thrilled! How did you come to start writing Westerns? I grew up on a diet of television westerns—The Virginian, Bonanza, Alias Smith and Jones, The High Chaparral…I could go on and on. But they took me to a time and place that somehow seemed more appealing than the suburban New York that surrounded me, and cowboys have always been my heroes. When my daughter was six we started having holidays in the West on ranches and I became very involved with the whole culture of the West, its history and its landscape. It was an obvious choice for a setting for my books. ‘Loveland’ features an English heroine and an American setting. Did you fin...